Goals: To deliver sexual health education to Black and minority ethnic young people
Funding: 240,000 from funders including the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund; Government Office North West; Manchester Joint Health Unit and the Community Fund
The Young Black Peerspectives project started life as the Young Black People's Peer Education Project in 1999, carrying out sexual health work with Black and minority ethnic young people and young asylum seekers, in Manchester, Salford and Trafford.
The project was started by co-ordinator Paul Mattis, who worked as a mentor to young men in youth centres. It evolved into a peer education project aimed at both genders after he found that young women wanted information too.
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